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Questions For Class Discussion

Questions For Class Discussion
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865 - 1896

  1. Why has the Plains Indians resistance to white encroachment played such a large part in the popular American view of the West? How is that mythical past related to the Indians actual history?

  2. What was romantic about the final phases of frontier settlement, and what was not?

  3. Why was the passing of the frontier in 1890 a disturbing development for many Americans? Was the frontier more important as a particular place or as an idea?

  4. Was the federal government biased against farmers and workers in the late nineteenth century? Why or why not?

  5. Was McKinleys election really a conservative one, or was it Bryan and the Populists who represented the agrarian past resisting a progressive urban American future?
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